Last time I told you that my baby was going through the so-called anguish of the eighth month or separation anguish, a crisis that babies suffer from the anxiety of beginning to perceive themselves as being independent of their mother or the person they feel most attached to.
Although it is called "of the eighth month", it does not mean that it appears at exactly that age or that it lasts strictly one month.
It is a process that the baby is going through, and that as such it can last a few days or months, as it seems to be the case of my little girl, who with more than nine months and for my absolute burden is experiencing an intense crisis for several weeks
Lately he spends more hours of the day crying than anything else. I even thought that I could hurt something without my knowing it, so in the last medical check-up I consulted him with the pediatrician who after exploring it diagnosed me that what he suffers is a acute mastitis.
It left me much calmer, logical, but I will not deny that such a claim (with capital letters) also affects me a lot, because I can do absolutely nothing, not even go to the bathroom without your company.
I think the situation is aggravated by the fact that we live far from the family and that the girl is exclusively with me all day.
I cook with the girl in my arms, arrange the house and even write on the computer with the girl on top. The times she wakes up at night she cries so that she comes to calm her down, if I leave her sight she despairs and if I leave her in the arms of another person she cries as if she had abandoned her, that maybe it's really what she thinks and That's why she feels so distressed.
The situation has exhausted me, because I am the only person who can solve his anguish, which although it is a compliment to a mother, is also strenuous.
The pediatrician recommended that I do not stop breastfeeding at this moment, because he needs it as comfort, which he also did not intend to do. Nor is it convenient for large changes to occur at the family level so as not to increase your sense of insecurity.
In short, the best remedy for acute mastitis is to have a large dose of patience and understanding for the baby.
